Hadamar-July 15th

Study Session Transcripts:

Excerpt from: Hadamar, July 15th. The director of the Hadamar memorial in discussion with scholars.

"...because we think the victims of euthanasia crimes – they have very little lobby and representation – so we talk about them as the forgotten victims – so Hadamar memorial was opened in 1983 – it was the first memorial that opened and began to work – since then it took a long time but it has no public – still people who live near here and even teachers do not even know what happened. Who was most instrumental in setting up Hadamar as a memorial. It started from the hospital here – it was a hospital since the war and the medical director started with a social worker. Because this basement where T4 killings were carried out – it was used as a normal basement after the war and so the knowledge about what had happened here was forgotten. And then many young people worked here and they did not know what had happened even just 14 years before. And then in the US holocaust movie --- Hadamar was mentioned – and then young people looked in the basement and they found records and there was a student group from Frankfort and they wrote a book and then a group from Giesen and they made the first exhibition and then after a few years and then a welfare group in charge of children too, hospitals took this too" .

Uta George

Hadamar- July 16th

Archival Materials:

Records of three deaf patients who had lived at Hadamar